Archives - 05 July 2013, Friday

On the 39th floor of one of London’s tallest office buildings — chock full of bankers in dark suits, and overlooking the mighty Thames — a group of entrepreneurs, investors, analysts and the media came together this week to talk about a more alternative form of financing: the controve...

Bitcoin with one of the virtual currency community's slogans There is a future when the City of London really doesn't sleep: Trading still stops on the Stock Exchange at 5 sharp, but the banker doesn't stop. He just switches kit. He checks his bespoke Bitcoin miner humming away on the...

The price of Bitcoin is slipping, corresponding to a decline in its exchange volume to dollars, and a decidedly negative operating margin for those working to ‘mine’ the currency. Currently, Bitcoin trades for roughly $73 . The dizzying assent of Bitcoin was followed by a predictable ...

BillPin , the bill-splitting service based out of Singapore, has gone international. That’s to say that the service now supports 40 different currencies, which include Bitcoin and another monetary unit that transcends geography: beer! The BillPin service had been in beta for some time...

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Stanford University is offering a course to young entrepreneurs which requires them to build a bitcoin crowdfunding system. Stanford is one of the most illustrious universities in the US, and so the inclusion of bitcoin is a sign of mainstream acceptance by exposing the business peopl...

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Swedish startup Flattr , which offers an ‘online tipjar’ service, has announced it has added partial support for Bitcoin: you can now fund your account with the virtual currency. Furthermore, the company is considering adding the option to withdraw in Bitcoins too, but it first wants ...

Bitcoin is battling for survival in California, as state regulators seem intent to strangle the cryptocurrency.The latest salvo came this week after the Bitcoin Foundation, whose goal is to promote all-digital currency, was forced to respond to a cease and desist letter from the state...

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. Getty Images Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins best known for their role in the history of Facebook, have had their fair share of headlines this week. The reason, of course, is their plan to come to market with an exchange-traded product giving inve...

Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 5th July 2013 — a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host … John Law Send guns and lawyers There are many civil servants in ...

Bitcoin with one of the virtual currency community's slogans There is a future when the City of London really doesn't sleep: Trading still stops on the Stock Exchange at five sharp, but the banker doesn't stop. He just switches kit. He checks his bespoke Bitcoin miner humming away on ...

The Winklevoss twins earlier this week confirmed plans to make the first Bitcoin related public offering. Their plan is for an investment vehicle that will be similar to an "exchange-traded fund" or ETF came with an unusually long list of potential risks. For those in the Bitcoin comm...

It is no secret that bitcoin usability has room for improvement. Fortunately, a new feature planned for the bitcoin v0.9 release will significantly increase merchant and customer usability in four key areas: ease of payment, recurring payments, dispute resolution, and immediate-feedba...

Bitcoin, a decentralised, virtual currency, is garnering increasing interest from investors and entrepreneurs. The FT's Maija Palmer reports from a Bitcoin conference on where the currency is heading and goes to buy her first (fraction) of a Bitcoin. For more video content from the Fi...

Over the last 10 days, the price of a bitcoin has dropped from $105 to $65.55. The downward spiral seems to have picked up speed since the Winklevoss twins on July 1 filed to form a Bitcoin ETF . Sophisticated market watchers view the Winklevoss filing as a method by which the twins w...

BillPin , the bill-splitting service based out of Singapore, has gone international. That’s to say that the service now supports 40 different currencies, which include Bitcoin and another monetary unit that transcends geography: beer! The BillPin service had been in beta for some time...

The price of Bitcoin is slipping, corresponding to a decline in its exchange volume to dollars, and a decidedly negative operating margin for those working to ‘mine’ the currency. Currently, Bitcoin trades for roughly $73 . The dizzying assent of Bitcoin was followed by a predictable ...

I own several websites based on SiteMile wordpress themes, such as BitFiverr.com, BitBing.com, and BitBiddy.com These are auctions, classifieds, and fiverr-type sites based on the SiteMile themes for Wordpress. I need someone to integrate Bitcoin payments into the sites, preferably wi...

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Bitcoin transactions are saved in ledgers that archive their data using peer-to-peer technology. New ledger updates lead to the creation of new bitcoins. While their use has not gotten mainstream till now, there are a lot of sites like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes that turn your bit...

Mt. Gox, which bills itself as the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, announced that it’s fully resumed account withdrawals, after a two-week shutdown. In a notice to customers dated July, 4 , Mt. Gox said: Mt. Gox is happy to announce that global account withdrawals have now fully res...

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss ’s proposal for an investment tracking the virtual currency Bitcoin faces a protracted fight to win over regulators and market makers. The twins, who attended Harvard University at the same time as Facebook (FB) founder Mark Zuckerberg and claimed in a law...

One stand out omission from the RSA’s new pamphlet, ‘From the digital divide to inclusive innovation, the case of digital money ‘, launched at the RSA on the 26th June 2013, was any real consideration of developments in the field of digital currencies, and their potential impact on lo...

Bitcoin, a decentralised, virtual currency, is garnering increasing interest from investors and entrepreneurs. The FT's Maija Palmer reports from a Bitcoin conference on where the currency is heading and goes to buy her first (fraction) of a Bitcoin. For more video content from the Fi...